Beyond the Politics of Disappointment: American Elections 1980-1998
Carey McWilliams; Wilson C. McWilliams
CQ PRESS
2000
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A provocative evaluation of electoral trends--distrust of government, desire for a renewal of the American dream, decreasing voter turnout, support for self-government, debate over the shape of political conflict--which McWilliams characterizes as a politics of disappointment. Includes an incisive analysis of the Clinton years and the impeachment trial.